Associate Professor Melinda Cooper

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Biographical details

Between June 2011 and June 2015, I will be undertaking a Future Fellowship funded by the Australian Research Council. The title of the project is Experimental Workers of the World: The Labour of Human Research Subjects in the Emerging Bioeconomies of China and India.

Associations

In the media

August 17, 2014, Surrogacy, drug trials and commercialising human bodies, The Sydney Morning Herald. A discussion on the book by Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby, 2014, Clinical Labor: Tissue donors and Research Subjects in the Bioeconomy. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Cooper, M. (2008). Life As Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era. Seattle, USA: University of Washington Press.

Book Chapters

Cooper, M. (2014). The Law of the Household: Foucault, Neoliberalism and the Iranian Revolution. In Vanessa Lemm, Miguel Vatter (Eds.), The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics and Neoliberalism, (pp. 29-58). New York: Fordham University Press.

Cooper, M. (2014). The Law of the Household: Foucault, Neoliberalism and the Iranian Revolution. In Vanessa Lemm, Miguel Vatter (Eds.), The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics and Neoliberalism, (pp. 29-58). New York: Fordham University Press.

Cooper, M. (2014). The Theology of Emergency: Welfare Reform, US Foreign Aid, and the Faith-based Initiative. Theory, Culture and Society, Published online before print January 27, 2014. [More Information]